configuration examples. These flags are depricated and will actually
cause config(8) to fail with a 'syntax error.'
Reviewed by: -doc (one approval, no dissent)
abortive Release Engineering chapter of the Handbook.
Now that this is done, and the whole annoying "releng article won't
build on freefall" issue is solved, that chapter in the Handbook can
be axed.
Thanks to those who started cleaning this up in the Handbook while I
was busy dealing with my own life.
FreeBSD-specific catalog files are set during this tutorial; this will
answer a common FreeBSD docproj complaint on complaints generated by
emacs.
"if it's wrong, fix it" by: nik
information was inaccurate, and a more thorough explanation is
available in the release engineering article.
PR: docs/34886
Submitted by: Thomas E. Zander <riggs@f113.hadiko.de>
Add a few paragraphs from the Handbook to describe how to mirror a
local CVS repository, and point to the CVSup section of the Handbook
for more details.
Note that if RELEASETAG is omitted from "make release", then a
-CURRENT snapshot will be built. (Also from Handbook).
base system.
* Update links to FreeBSD packages to use the 'Latest/pkgname.tgz'
link so that we don't have to keep the version numbers updated.
* Expand some </> shorthand.
* Fix a few typos.
PR: docs/34884
Submitted by: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> (mostly)
CRTL+ALT+DEL can be used to reboot the system if it locks up during
install.
PR: 33042, 34644
33042 Submitted by: Ashley Penney <ashp@unloved.org>
34644 Submitted by: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>
/usr/src/UPDATING) to fix the time zone if your machine's clock is set
to local time and not GMT.
PR: 33937, 34644
33937 Submitted by: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
34644 Submitted by: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>
-binup, -cluster, -config, -firewire, -gnome, -hubs, -i18n, -ia64,
-install, -ipfw, -lfs, -libh, -platforms, -policy, -ppc, -qa, -realtime,
-sparc, -standards, -test, -usergroups, -vendors.
Add descriptions of -aic7xxx, -gnome, -lfs and -vendors to the Handbook.
Move -security and -security-notifications to the General section,
so they would get people's attention more easily.
Reviewed by: -doc
Approved by: silence on -doc
Obtained from: /g/majordomo.lists/ on hub.FreeBSD.org
CURDIR. This causes problems when one wants to have multiple doc/
trees checked out at once because it requires every tree to be in a
directory called "doc"; i.e., one must have <name-of-tree>/doc/
instead of just <name-of-tree>/ like one can do with src/. Mitigate
the pain by making it possible to tell the build infrastructure what
the doc prefix is called; this still isn't perfect since it requires
